Dead Cant Rant

Did you know that Netflix has RSS feeds?

Here’s a bit of Python code I whipped up for a friend to fetch one of their feeds and print out the titles. All you need is this script and Mark Pilgrim’s ultra-liberal feed parser and away you go.

import feedparser
url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=296'

def main():
  feed = feedparser.parse(url)
  for item in feed['items']:
    print item['title']

if __name__ == ‘__main__’:
  main()

Of course, thanks to Python’s list comprehensions it could have been reduced to two lines, if you’re into that sort of thing:

import feedparser
print [item['title'] for item in feedparser.parse(’http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=296′)['items']]

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